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...like the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland, "sighed a Democratic Party official who has helped Carter over these years. "He is disappearing into the trees, and there is nothing left but the smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Assessing a Presidency | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

Playwright Tennessee Williams is madder than a cat on a hot tin roof about the reviews that crumpled his Clothes for a Summer Hotel as soon as it opened on Broadway last March. "I'll never open a play in New York again," he vows. Williams is therefore discussing an alliance with the Goodman Theater in Chicago, hoping the city that raved about the premiere of his first play, The Glass Menagerie, will once again be his kind of town. "This move was forced on me," insists the Pulitzer prizewinner. "I can't get good press from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 18, 1980 | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...rock star he created Ziggy Stardust, the orange-haired founder of bisexual chic. In his 1976 film debut, he played Thomas Jerome Newton, the cat-eyed extraterrestrial of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Now, British-born David Bowie, onetime idol of the glitter set, has come in for a landing on the legitimate stage. His typically freakish role; John Merrick, the deformed central figure in that Broadway hit The Elephant Man, which opens in Denver this week. Says Bowie of his assorted personas: "It looks like I'm always going to have a physical or psychological limp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 4, 1980 | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...convent, earned herself the sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hell No, I Won't Go! | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

This is largely true of Lange and St. James as well and might be attributed to the earnest but flat script. While Lange purrs as beautifully as a Persian cat and St. James creates a perfect suburban mother, the trio never manages to build the kind of fast-talking, silly camraderie maintained even by Charlie's Angels...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Two for the Road | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

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